Spotify With 15 Million Songs Now Reaches US Shores

Spotify, the Swedish DRM-based popular music online service in Europe, is coming to U.S. shores. The music service offers more than 15 million songs.

One can enjoy free streaming of music without the hassle of waiting for files to download. The service offers artists and songs of your choice. As music is social, Spotify allows you to share songs and playlist with friends and even work together on collaborative playlists. The users can share music with a click to Facebook and Twitter.

Also, users can import their music files into Spotify from hard drive or iTunes Music Library. All your own music files stored on the computer can be synced to your iPod, iPhone or Android device with Spotify. It offers peer to peer streaming music player that allows lightning quick search options. The service hosts range of major record labels including the likes of Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal.

The free account provides unlimited streaming, and the service limits the amount of streaming to 10 hours per month and a user can only listen to a track a maximum of five times.

The Unlimited version for $4.99 offers no advertisements and unlimited streaming of music. With Premium version for $9.99, it offers extra features like Spotify on your mobile and offline mode for playlist along with inclusion of Unlimited version offers.

If you don’t have a Premium account, then download the Spotify Mobile app for iOS and Android and wirelessly sync all your music files. Also, with Spotify on the mobile, store the playlist in Offline mode which can be very useful when one experiences poor connection, wants to prolong the battery or does not want to pick up data transfer costs. In fact, on the Android version of Spotify, there are options to sync music over Wi-Fi, 3G, or both.

How to check if your phone is compatible? Access m.spotify.com with your phone’s browser or else enter the phone number in Spotify website in Mobile Overview Pageand they will send you a link to confirm the compatibility.

About 8 percent of Americans now do most of their web surfing on a smartphone and about 35 percent consider it as primary access point for Internet, according to a study by Pew Internet and American Life Project. Hence here is a look at phones that are compatible with Spotify.